Bots Against Slavery

September 4, 2018

See how Seattle Against Slavery is fighting sex trafficking with chatbots that pose as sex trafficking victims and that interact directly with the buyers.

Emerging Technology

Bot Basics, Bots for Business

Hiring a Bot Developer? These Top Interview Questions Can Help!

Want to make sure your bot developer really knows their stuff? We’ve put together a list of interview questions to help you hire the right bot developer.

Bot Development

Multilingual Chatbots: Teaching Your Bot New Languages

Chatbots that can communicate in multiple languages can help you reach more users. Before you get started, read up on these linguistic and cultural challenges.

Bot Development

Why Good Writing is Central to Conversational AI

What role does good writing play in the day-to-day business of bot building? And what is “good writing” anyway? In this article, we explore some of the ways good writing plays a crucial role in your conversational AI strategy.

Bot Development

Speech Recognition: Teaching Your Bot to Speak

Voice chatbots can recognize human speech and are a preferred way for consumers to interact with brands. Learn the basics of building a voice chatbot.

Bots for Business

Shopping Cart Abandonment? Chatbots to the Rescue!

How to Design a Chatbot’s Personality

Follow our practical guide for designing a chatbot’s personality, and create a bot with a fully developed personality that your users will enjoy and trust.

Bot Basics, Bot Development

How to Design a Chatbot’s Personality

Follow our practical guide for designing a chatbot’s personality, and create a bot with a fully developed personality that your users will enjoy and trust.

Functions of Bots

April 10, 2018

The ability of bots to accomplish different types of tasks is evolving and increasing rapidly. You can get a bot to manage projects in your Slack channel, get the weather, discover new music or tell you a dad joke. Here are a few things that bots can do.

Bot Basics

Emerging Technology

Serverless Computing Simplifies Chatbot Maintenance

Serverless computing is a great solution for hosting your bot. Here’s the history and why.

Discoverability

4 Proven Ways to Get Your Bot Discovered

So you’ve built an awesome new chatbot, now what? You need to break through the noise and get your bot discovered so you can grow your user base.

Chatbot News

How Apps are Pushing Bots into the Mainstream

Conversational marketing and messaging apps are pushing bots into the everyday. Learn about some of the benefits of integrating chatbots in messaging apps.

Chatbot News

What Chatbot Communities to Join in 2018

Do you know where to find other bot developers to talk shop and share your knowledge? If not, start with this list of our favorite bot development communities.

Frameworks and Tools

How to reserve a .BOT domain using Pandorabots

In this step-by-step guide you’ll learn how to create your first bot using a Pandorabots account, deploy your bot, and reserve a .BOT domain for your site.

Emerging Technology

Service Chatbots: How Voice Recognition Is Making Them More Sophisticated

Voice recognition and deep learning are paving the way for bots to replace humans in customer service. Learn about the challenges facing bot developers today.

Give your bot a home.

You built it. You taught it. Now give it a home to grow on a .bot domain.